It's Your Business: Local inventors get ESPN shout-out

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Nov 27, 2012 at 12:01 AMNov 27, 2012 at 10:28 PM

Ragan Robinson / rrobinson@gastongazette.com

ESPN is showing some love this season to a pair of local putting product entrepreneurs.

The $125 Radi-Eye Blade Classic Putter, dreamed up and created by Gastonia machinist Eric Shuford, made it onto ESPNís holiday gift guide for golfers this year. Itís listed on the sports conglomerateís website right between a $900 four-iron and a $160 wedge.

They also got a nod from USA Today when the paper put the Radi-Eye in its ďWhatís hot in golfĒ column last year.

The two make versions of the putter that range from the $125 classic to a $400 Radi-Eye Mallet Center Shafted.

Shuford and Lockavitch insist the founded face of the thing will correct mis-hit putts of all kinds.

ESPN writer Michael Collins backs them up on that.

ďI donít know how itís possible either but Iíve seen it in person and it works,Ē he writes.

The P3 website if p3GolfOnline.com if you want to know more.

LivingSocial users could get refunds

Forget to cash in that LivingSocial voucher for a Segway tour? Did you chicken out on the great bikini wax deal?

You could get some of that money back.

A class-action settlement will likely refund $4.5 million to buyers who didnít use their vouchers. The settlement is in response to lawsuits that challenged expiration dates on the siteís offerings.

LivingSocial is waiting for the courts to give the arrangement a final OK.

People who want their piece of the $4.5 million pie can go to LivingSocialVoucherSettlement.com to put their names in the pot and learn more about the class action suit. The dollar amount of each claim will depend on how many people ask for money back.